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^* This book has been dropped as of fall 2005.

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^** This last is the advice given by my math guru, Wayne Wickelgren. Wickelgren's rule of thumb for parents wishing to accelerate their child's study of mathematics is to teach the child 30% of the advanced curriculum before he joins the class.

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Christopher would be mastering lessons on:

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It should be self-evident that any 11 year old studying Math Lessons called Go with the Flow is not being groomed to compete in the Global World Economy. We had to get into Phase 4.

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It should be self-evident that any 11 year old studying Math Lessons called Go with the Flow is not being groomed to compete in the Global World Economy. We had to get into Phase 4.

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It should be self-evident that any 11 year old studying Math Lessons called Go with the Flow is not being groomed to compete in the Global World Economy. We had to get into Phase 4.

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It should be self-evident that any 11 year old studying Math Lessons called Go with the Flow is not being groomed to compete in the Global World Economy. We had to get into Phase 4.

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<<O>> Difference Topic Catherine (r1.130 - 25 May 2006 - CatherineJohnson)

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The fraction situation has probably gotten worse in the years since Carolyn was teaching. Critics of constructivist math—most American textbooks today have constructivist elements—will tell you that constructivist texts gloss over the whole subject of fractions, especially the computation of fractions.

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And Tom Loveless will tell you that the NAEP test, aka “Our Nation’s Report Card,” appears to have dropped test items requiring computation with fractions almost entirely:

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2 of my books (& please scroll down for why I'm here)

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The Singapore books looked great, but I didn’t trust myself to teach them.

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So we opened up our 700-page Saxon book and started with Lesson One: Sequences • Digits.

A couple of weeks later, I decided to start teaching math to me, too.

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So there you have it. Scores are going up because they’ve stopped putting fractions on the test. (pdf file)

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Which meant Christopher wasn’t just behind his friends, all but one of whom had now completed his second year in Phase 4 math; and he wasn’t just behind the rest of the kids in Phase 3. He was miles behind the entire civilized world.

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Which meant Christopher wasn’t just behind his friends, all but one of whom had now completed his second year in Phase 4 math, and he wasn’t just behind the rest of the kids in Phase 3. He was miles behind the entire civilized world.

If I wanted Christopher to be on par with the rest of the world’s grade-schoolers —and I did— I would have to get him into Phase 4 by 6th grade, because in our district only the Phase 4 kids master algebra in the 8th grade.

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But I didn't know any of this at the time. So I had no idea Christopher and I were starting at the top.

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I didn't know any of this at the time. So I had no idea Christopher and I were starting at the top.

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But I didn't know any of this at the time. So I had no idea Christopher and I were starting at the top.

I discovered pretty quickly that I couldn’t teach fractions and decimals using the school’s textbook, an opinion shared by most of the district’s teachers, it seems. So I started looking around for help.

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So there you have it. Scores are going up because they’ve stopped putting fractions on the test. (pdf file)

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Later on I discovered that fractions are the ‘bottleneck’ in elementary mathematics; lives are lost in the struggle to learn fractions.

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I shouldn't say that like it's a joke, because it's not. Carolyn will tell you she’s seen young women in college wash out of their pre-nursing programs because they didn’t understand fractions & so couldn’t do the algebra they needed to pass the entry tests for nursing school. They're spending their lives emptying bedpans instead of taking patient histories and giving shots, all because they didn't learn fractions in 4th grade.

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I shouldn't say that like it's a joke, because it's not. Carolyn will tell you she’s seen young women in college wash out of their pre-nursing programs because they didn’t understand fractions & couldn’t do the algebra they needed to pass the entry tests for nursing school. They're spending their lives emptying bedpans instead of taking patient histories and giving shots, all because they didn't learn fractions in 4th grade.

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Obviously, it was summer make-up time. I ordered a used copy of the textbook and sat the two of us down at the picnic table outside our kitchen to learn Fractions and Decimals.

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